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-'''New Urban Sjowaázh''' is an emergent variety of Sowaázh spoken by urban middle-class children and teens.
+'''New Urban Sowaár''' is an emergent variety of Sowaár spoken by urban middle-class children and teens. It is characterized by:
+*a vocabulary and grammar that is a mixture of formal/standard Sowaár and informal/basilectal Sowaár, where formal Sowaár is used for high-register words and concepts
+*a non-posh accent
 ==Origins==
-Compared to other groups, urban women speakers of Sowaázh speak somewhat more uniformly, in a less dialectal and somewhat more posh style of speech. Young women being the main drivers of linguistic change, a version of this "gynelect" is on its way to becoming a new, non-posh standard for Sowaázh.
+Compared to other groups, urban women speakers of Sowaár speak somewhat more uniformly, in a less dialectal and somewhat more posh style of speech. Young women being the main drivers of linguistic change, a version of this "gynelect" is on its way to becoming a new, non-posh standard for Sowaár.
 ==Phonology==
-The phonology is based on High Sowaázh, with a few differences.
+The phonology is based on High Sowaár, with a few differences.
-*Plain unaspirated consonants /p t c k ts tʂ tɕ/ become fully voiced [b d dʑ g dz dʐ dʑ].
+*Plain unaspirated consonants become fully voiced.
-*Word-initial /sC-/ clusters become voiceless unaspirated stops.
+*'''dr tr tr' ''' are affricate [d͡ʐ t͡ʂ t͡ʂ'].
-*'''gy ky ky' ''' merge with '''jy cy cy''''.
+*'''dlr tlr tlr' łr''' become velar laterals '''gl kl kl' khl'''.
-*'''ly''' merges with '''y'''.
+*'''nr r''' are much less retroflex than in High Sowaár.
 *'''p''' may be pronounced [f].
+*'''w''' may be pronounced [v] or [ʋ].
 *Stress accent rather than pitch accent (as in Modern Greek).
 ==Morphology==
-Similar to High Sjowaázh
+Similar to High Sowaár
 ===Ablaut===
-New Urban Sjowaázh has 40 ablaut classes, compared to High Sowaázh's 57.
+New Urban Sowaár has 40 ablaut classes, compared to High Sowaár's 57.
+===Discourse affixes===
+Discourse affixes are used heavily, unlike in High Sowaár.
 ==Vocabulary==
-[[Skellan]] loanwords are much more common than in High Sowaázh. Many words of Skellan origin are pseudo-Skellanisms or clippings of Skellan words. Borrowing words with Skellan Skellan pronunciation used to be preferred, but now Fyxoomian Skellan is the norm for new borrowings.
+[[Eevo]] loanwords are much more common in New Urban Sowaár than in High Sowaár. Many words of Eevo origin are pseudo-Eevoisms or clippings of Eevo words and phrases. High Sowaár used to prefer to borrow from [[Skellan/Accents#Alcvean|Skellan Eevo]], but today [[Skellan/Accents#General_Fyxoomian|Fyxoomian Eevo]] is the norm for new borrowings.